Work & commute · Halls

Work & commute in Halls, TN

Most working residents leave Halls for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Knoxville (47%), Oak Ridge (5%) and Clinton (2%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

178 of 4,626 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,448 Halls residents head out of town to work, 178 work right here, and 3,284 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Halls.

4,448live here, work elsewhere

178live and work here

3,284work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Halls goes to work

Knoxville7.7 mi away

47%2,158

Oak Ridge21.4 mi away

5%212

Halls (in town)right here

4%178

Clinton10.9 mi away

2%86

Maryville23.2 mi away

2%81

Alcoa18.5 mi away

2%73

Chattanooga101.9 mi away

2%70

Powell6.2 mi away

1%67

Farragut19.8 mi away

1%58

Memphis345.5 mi away

1%51

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%1,592

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Halls commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

42%

39%

13%

42%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Halls is a commuter town

0.75jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.75 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Halls are

3,462 jobs are based in Halls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Halls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Halls

3,462 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities42%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Halls residents hold

4,626 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

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Jobs based in Halls, 2013 → 2023: 3,451 → 3,462. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.